Tag: kid activities

  • Summer Bucket List for learning and play

    Summer Bucket List for learning and play

    We’ve been so-so at achieving our goals for Summer Bucket lists in previous years.  Partially I had big huge plans, partially I came up with too much, but what’s a bucket list like this for if not to be way more than you can accomplish? This year as I was scanning Facebook one day I saw a…

  • Childhood to do list: WATER FIGHT!

    Childhood to do list: WATER FIGHT!

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    Every child must have at least one water fight before they grow up.  The problem is I overthink it. I start to think of all the things that could make the fight EPIC!  You know, it’s talked about for weeks.  But sometimes that’s not what your kids want or need.  They just want a chance…

  • Going on a ???????? hunt

     Sometimes it’s fun to take a break from learning and have some fun that isn’t related to learning at all. The other day we found these mysterious footprints.  What are they, who put them there? “Oh no!”  said Superman (I really should have written down who it was when I first took these pictures).  “Some…

  • How to have a Carnival Party!

    With some easy games and set up. Step 1:  Order some bags and many chocolate and plastic coins from Oriental Trading Company, or similar place. Step 2.  Collect an insane number of cans and paint them for the game.Step 3: Set up knock the cans game down with coins, bean bags, and stack of cans.…

  • Childhood to do list: Build a fort

    Childhood to do list: Build a fort

    I remember as a kid every fall my Dad would trim back the trees drastically and I’d build a fort out of all those branches.  It was quite a feat.  So, in my mind, this should be on every kid’s childhood to do list. It’s always interesting to discover what things you think everyone did…